Cyn Vargas

Cyn Vargas’ short story collection, On The Way, received positive reviews from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Heavy Feather Review, Necessary Fiction, among others. Book accolades include: Book Scrolling’s Best Short Story Collections of All Time, Newcity Lit’s Top 5 Fiction Books by Chicago Authors, Bustle’s 11 Short Story Collections Your Book Club Will Love, Chicago Book Review’s Favorite Books (2015), and Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Honorable Mention (2015).

Cyn’s prose and essays have been widely published. She received a Top 25 Finalist and Honorable Mention in two of Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Contests, is the recipient of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in Fiction, voted 2022 Instructor of the Year by the Stories Matter Foundation, appointed Core Faculty in Short Fiction at StoryStudio Chicago, on the Board of Directors for Hypertext Studio, and twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. www.cynvargas.com